David groaned deeply, his cock pulsing as he came. I felt the warmth of his cum inside my body. A feral part of me was satisfied with it, like I was letting David claim me, letting him flood me with his essence—like in the breeding kink kind of way, without the actual breeding—because of birth control and all that.
Everything about this moment felt so right…
It should have been perfect.
If only I could stop the little voice whispering in the back of my mind…
This was nice…but he’d never be able to knot you…you’re not an omega and you never will be.
I clenched my eyes shut—not that closing my eyes would do anything to drown out those little thoughts that refused to go away. Thoughts of how this wasalmostperfect. If David had just been able to get that last bit of his cock in me when he came…
If only I could ignore the thoughts that this would probably feel so much better for him if I were an actual omega, and not, well, me.
CHAPTER 23
DAVID
Fuck it—Iwas going to marry this girl.
CHAPTER 24
AVRIL
Somehow,over the course of the past few months, I’d forgotten that dating could befun—I mean, crazy concept, right?
David took me rollerblading and dancing.
He’d even convinced me one weekend to go camping, even after I had stubbornly sat for ten minutes with my arms crossed telling him I had no interest in cos-playing as a homeless person in the wilderness when I was a grown-ass adult with money for paying therent.
But after he sweet-talked me into it, I didn’t regret a second of it. After half-drowning in bug spray, I actually ended up having a wonderful time—magical even, when the two of us laid down on a cozy blanket and looked up at all the constellations in the night sky—and then David fucked me under the glow of the moonlight, outside with the soft chirping of the crickets. There was nothing between me and the wilderness except for David’s muscular body surrounding me, bringing me to a higher pleasure than I had ever known in my entire life.
It was like I dreamed him up. I don’t think that anything I could have planned for, any list that I could have written out the qualities that I was hoping for in a partner, nothing would evermeasure up to the reality of David. It was like he was just too good to be true.
He was so considerate to me. He didn’t just laugh at my jokes; David actually vibed with my sense of humor. It was like when the two of us were back at The Thirsty Pearl and he would give me secret looks on my dates, silently asking meCan you believe this guy?Except now it was like we were on the same side. It was just the two of us against the world.
All of that wasn’t even taking into consideration howhothe was. The effect didn’t go away after I got to know him better. I had to fight my need to kick my feet in excitement when I saw him, and stop myself from running around in circles whooping with joy like I was some overgrown cat with the zoomies. God, he was so damn hot.
His body—fuck.
It was like looking at a sculpture in a museum, except that I got to fuck him. And speaking of fucking—the sex—damn! He was so good at it.
When we did the horizontal tango, he moved so fluidly, so gracefully. I’d never had a partner who could make me come so hard.
The way David held me in his arms, so possessively—he always made me feel like he wanted me. I loved every moment of sleeping with him. Loved the way he moved inside me, loved how he slammed into me. I even loved the way that his knot—
Right.
Right. Hisknot.
The knot that he had because whatever it was that David and I were doing, he was still an alpha messing around with a beta woman.
What the fuck was I doing? What the actualfuckwas I doing? How could I let myself forget that David was an alpha? I was letting myself get all wrapped up in him… for now.
But how could I let myself forget that the two of us were never biologically meant to be together?
I wanted him so badly… it was easy to forget that no matter how perfect David felt to me… he was an alpha.
No matter how right this felt, a little voice had to remind me to enjoy it now, while it lasted.
